Discovery/Status updates/2016-09-19

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-19

Discussions

• The team had several conversations about elastic search things (ICU_folding) and external referrers and how to get db access for investigations as well as mock design for displaying the upcoming cross-wiki search results
• Data Demolition Derby was completed for cleaning up old Qualtrics survey data

Events and News

• Interactive:
  • Geoshapes service can now get both polygons (e.g. city outline) and lines (eg. rivers and roads) by their Wikidata ID
  • "properties" in GeoJSON now apply to the ExternalData geoshapes

• Search:
  • CompletionSuggester with defaultsort demo available here, feedback welcome
  • Completed analysis of squashing Russian stress accents and folding ё to е for Russian wikis.
  • Updated ElasticSearch document versioning in CirrusSearch
    • This is contingent on a full cluster restart and a deployment of the configuration change
  • Updated Completion Suggester code for searching a subpage title using the search bar
  • Added position increment gap to fields where positions are stored
  • Documented our usage of the term 'PaulScore'
  • Upgraded ElasticSearch and plugins to 2.3.5
  • Monitor the usage of in memory data structures used by ElasticSearch
  • Fixed when search for insource:tag finds "<tag>" but not "{{#tag:tag}}

• Analysis:
  • Completed analysis to determine if the new Wikipedia.org portal page display caused any pageview decreases to smaller wikis (UK) (analysis html and pdf docs)
  • Updated dashboards to allow for easier bookmarking/copying

• Wikipedia.org Portal:
  • Requested additional translations from translatewiki
  • Optimize the image optimization

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Yuri and Julien are attending State of the Map 2016 conference in Brussels

Development

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